by Jennifer Craw For education systems around the world, increasing access to early childhood education (ECE) can both improve student learning outcomes and close gaps in achievement between advantaged and disadvantaged students. Enrollment rates in pre-primary education have increased worldwide over the past decade, as more...
by Jackie Kraemer This year, British Columbia implemented an innovative new curriculum called Building Students Success for all kindergarten through 9th grade students in the province. The curriculum, developed by educators and based on the latest research and international best practice, is “concept-based and competency-driven.” It...
by Bob Rothman A new analysis of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) has found that the quality of school leadership is related to the development of professional learning communities in schools. Schools in which principals focus on curriculum and instruction and in which they...
by Jennifer Craw In high-performing systems, rigorous standards for entry into the teaching profession ensure that only the most qualified individuals enter elementary school classrooms. In Finland, for example, less than 10% of applicants are admitted into teacher training programs through a demanding multistage admissions process. (Click...
How important is it for elementary school teachers to have both deep content knowledge and a profound understanding of how students learn that content? According to CIEB’s latest report, Not So Elementary: Primary School Teacher Quality in Top-Performing Systems, the two qualities are critical to...
by Marc Tucker A new report from the National Conference of State Legislatures, No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State, wastes no time in getting to the point. “The bad news,” it says in the very first sentence,...
by Jackie Kraemer The World Bank held the U.S. release of a new report — How Shanghai Does It – Insights and Lessons from the Highest-Ranking Education System in the World — on June 23, 2016. Lead author Xiaoyan Liang explained that report was conceived of two...
by Nathan Driskell In May 2016, a team of researchers and practitioners from the Center on International Education Benchmarking and the National Institute for School Leadership conducted a weeklong benchmarking visit to Shanghai, China. During the trip, we spoke with policymakers and visited schools, including internationally renowned...
by Jackie Kraemer Jackie Kraemer of CIEB interviewed Mistilina Sato of the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development about the difference in teaching in the United States and Shanghai, specifically how teaching is a more public and collaborative profession in Shanghai than in the...
by Nathan Driskell This past week, a team from CIEB traveled to Shanghai to talk with students, educators and policymakers and observe teachers’ classrooms. Our experiences—from the stellar opera performance given by a young student in a desperately poor school to inspiring conversations with 40-year veterans of...